RE: Possible new virus?

["Bacchus Apollonius" <sleepwalker () saintly com>]

Hail,--
  In the original post the poster noted that he/she "wouldn't think twice if it hadn't happened to 3 computers from 3 
different vendors in 2 days".  What are the chances of three different CPU-fans (or whatever) in three different 
systems dying natural deaths in 48 hours with the same BIOS message despite being from different vendors?...  

Bootsector virus, perhaps?....  

Do you know if the fans are still in fact running?

Thanks & Regards,

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma () hotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2003 16:21
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Possible new virus?


> From: Wirefire Systems Administrator <sysadmin () wirefire com>
[snip]
> cpu cooling fan is malfunctioning
[snip]
> Accompanying this is a high-pitched tone from the PC speaker.

Ahem...Perhaps a warning tone that YOUR COOLING SYSTEM HAS FAILED??  This is 
not a security question, I'm not sure how it made it on to the list, but 
please take it to a hardware support forum.  Most likely the fan is full of 
crud and has overloaded the fan header, try cleaning the fan, and swapping 
to a different header.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"Conciousness: that annoying time between naps."

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